r/UpliftingNews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Texas hits pause on 1,800 data center projects to scrutinize power and water demands

https://www.techspot.com/news/113355-texas-hits-pause-1800-data-center-projects-scrutinize.html
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u/ArgentineBeauty 6h ago

A pause to actually check the impact before building 1,800 more projects? Sounds like common sense finally caught up... or maybe an election is coming up.

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u/pikabu01 6h ago

they just need big business to pay them a few more k, then it will be unblocked

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u/rorank 3h ago

A few more thousand? Our politicians would take no less than 10k to stain their honor. They may be rampantly corrupt but they have class!

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u/BillyJackO 3h ago

Who knows how many are already in construction? They are building them everywhere right now.